Q: A question for both of you: it’s your home Grand Prix, how do you approach it? You have different circumstances in each case.
Rubens Barrichello: Well, first of all, I’m so happy for Ricardo that he’s here, because when they said that Jarno was joining, it was probably a nice thing for Toyota, but as Ricardo had a chance to drive in some Grands Prix, this is probably the best one, so it’s nice to have him here.
For me, it used to be a good Grand Prix always, but there used to be pressure. In all the phases that I’ve gone through in my life, especially after Jordan, I had to change my attitude and I had to send the emotions away from everything that I do, so I was actually joking with one of our Italian friends, saying that you don’t have to believe in things, just because I haven’t finished the last ten races, it doesn’t mean that I won’t finish again. I have to remember the good times. I don’t believe in bad luck at all.
So the weekend is just nice. I have a lot of work to do. I’ve been with the press for a long time now. Actually this is probably the first time that I’ve been speaking in English. I’ve just finished on press conference in Portuguese about five minutes ago. But it’s a good race. It’s one that I enjoy and it’s a race where after a hard day’s work I can go back home and sleep in my bed. It’s just so good.

Ricardo Zonta: I feel very happy to have the chance to race in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Of course, so many things have happened this year at Toyota and they have given me the chance to race again. There have been so many changes and I’m just very happy to be here, in Sao Paulo and I will try to do my best. Of course, we have to work very hard to see if we have the possibility to finish well.

Q: Ricardo, just give us an idea of your history at this circuit? I think you’ve done quite a lot of racing here; what does that do for your confidence?
RZ: Of course, racing in Brazil you want to do better and better all the time, but I started here in Formula Opel, then Formula Three. I did my second race in Formula One here and I crashed and I had a problem with my feet. But I think the motivation that you have with Brazilian people and everybody crying and saying your name is very nice. But when you are racing, you go 100 percent at any racing circuit. Here it’s just extra motivation.

Q: Has it been a bit of a problem, popping in and out of Formula One? You replaced Cristiano, then you missed out in Japan and now you’ve come back again.
RZ: In China I felt very strange. I felt that something had happened in the team. Of course I didn’t have the position to push for anything. I was just the test driver. Of course they gave me the opportunity to race this year and I felt something strange. After that, they said it could be Olivier or me not racing in Japan, and Brazil as well, so in the end they gave me the chance to race here and Olivier was quite nice as well, because you know how he feels these things.

Q: How about the races you’ve had so far with Toyota; you seem to have had a lot of mechanical trouble?
RZ: Yeah, in Spa, of course, I was fourth in the race with three laps to go, but at the end I had the engine problem. It would have been my best result, it would have been the best result for Toyota as well and then in China, I was eighth, fighting with Felipe Massa for eighth position and I had a gearbox problem and I had to stop, so it was quite a difficult year for me.

Q: As a local boy, what’s the weather forecast? I hear it could be quite interesting.
RB: It’s cooler than last week. You know Brazil’s weather can be quite funny. It’s so difficult to know. I don’t think we’re going to have rain on Sunday but anything can happen. I’m thinking that all the time we have hot weather during the weekend, sometimes we have the rain during the weekend, so I’m just seeing the opposite now. We’re seeing the bad weather now and probably it’s going to become better. But I’m saying that because of pure feeling, I don’t have any information.

Q: Now I understand that when you played football the other day, you and Michael scored a goal each…
RB: I scored a goal and Michael scored on a penalty, which is quite different... (Laughter). ... which is quite different. You know with the penalty you just choose one side and then you let it go.

Q: So you’re feeling one up at the moment are you?
RB: Exactly. Even though now they’re saying that I was offside and so on. It’s a bit of a thing that happens sometimes when you’re a good player and you score well, it happens in Brazil. (Laughter).